by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 19, 2021 | Bible, God, Jesus, Ministry, Politics, Sexuality, The World, Witness, Worship
What comes to your mind when you think of the Garden of Eden? Paradise? A place of happiness and fulfillment? It is the vision of life in all its fullness. The Bible is book-ended by descriptions of the garden of God in Genesis 2 and Revelation 22. It is hard for us...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 14, 2021 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Reading, Sexuality, The World, Witness
God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them, ‘Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 11, 2021 | Abortion, Aging, Atheism, Bible, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Science, Sexuality, Suffering, The World
The importance of human identity is constantly in the news. We are supposedly defined by our race, our gender, our sexual preference, our past, our abilities and our opportunities instead of by “the content of our character” (Martin Luther King Jr.). We are being...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jun 11, 2021 | Aging, Faith, God, Healing, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Reading, Suffering, Witness
Today I turn eighty! How to make sense of attaining, what I have thought of as old age? I have outlived my father’s age and many of my friends. What will life be like in my eighties? My body has survived knee surgeries, a heart attack and arthritis. Thankfully my mind...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jun 5, 2021 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Islam, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Suffering, Witness
Jesus said, “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.” (Matthew 7:13,14) A characteristic of...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 26, 2021 | Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, Witness
“Our struggle today, is how to be faithful to this apostolic gospel, while at the same time presenting it in a way which resonates with modern men and women. What is immediately clear, is that, like the apostles, we must focus on Jesus Christ. Peter’s...
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